M&A Junior Associate

BDA Partners; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

BDA Partners in Hong Kong is seeking a highly motivated Junior Associate to support cross-border M&A and capital raising mandates. You will assist deal teams with financial models, valuation analyses, and client materials.

The role provides exposure to sell-side and buy-side work across Asia, requires collaboration with senior bankers, and involves preparing market research and due diligence. Fluency in English and Mandarin is essential; a minimum of three years’ M&A experience is

Qualifications

• Minimum three years of M&A and capital raising advisory experience.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese.
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills.
• Ability to build financial models from scratch.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel frequently.

Responsibilities

• Support cross-border M&A transactions with deal teams.
• Develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business.
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for M&A engagements, including buyside and sellside.
• Assist senior bankers in process management.
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents.
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans and prospects.
• Perform valuation analyses using various methodologies (comps, precedent, LBO, DCF).
• Attend meetings with client’s senior team members.
• Frequent travel as required.

Skills

M&A experience

Financial modeling

Valuation

Client management

Team leadership

English & Mandarin

Job description

BDA Partners (“BDA”) is a leader in cross-border investment banking, advising on acquisitions, divestments, JVs, capital raising, and restructuring involving Asia. BDA has been majority owned and managed by its employees since it was established in 1996.

BDA has an extensive track record of providing independent advice to entrepreneurs, blue-chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from North America, Europe and Asia.

BDA has teams of dedicated professionals located across Asia, the US and Europe with offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. With more than 120 professionals, BDA has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Asia.

BDA works across many sectors and has strong regional experience in Asia, with particularly deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer & Retail, Health, Industrials, Services, Sustainability and Technology sectors.

Role of the Junior Associate

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated Junior Associate for its Hong Kong office. BDA provides an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands‑on experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising.

The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

As well as having a deep understanding of valuation and broad finance, Associates should be able to identify and vet potential buyers from pitch materials and support sector teams in developing various client ready materials.

Responsibilities

Successful candidates will support deal teams with a wide variety of tasks around our M&A advisory mandates. In particular, an Associate’s work will typically cover the following:

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve‑outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assist senior bankers in process management
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company, precedent transaction, leveraged buyout, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client’s senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities inherent with M&A
• Minimum three years of M&A and capital raising advisory experience on a full‑time basis with another investment bank, corporate finance team of a Big 4 accounting firm, corporate M&A department, or private equity firm
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills –
• Having a deep understanding of valuation, advanced M&A accounting and general financial concepts
• Ability to guide juniors in financial modeling including building models from scratch and increasing efficiency in financial modelling
• Ability to interact with external stakeholders and defend assumptions and BDA analysis findings
• Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
• Strong client management skills – ability to earn the trust and respect of client teams such that clients contact him/her first for daily tasks
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized
• Strong leadership mindset – able to facilitate more effective delivery by working with junior team to improve performance
• Ability to manage expectations, timelines and effectively communicate with both junior and senior team members of the team
• High level of attention to detail
• Ability to travel on a frequent basis as required
• Fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese (written and verbal)

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment‑related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short‑listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.